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Country-specific goal-scoring in the "dying-seconds" of international football matches

Ours, Jan C van; Van Tuijl, Martin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

important international football matches. We examine goal-scoring from 1960 onwards in full 'A' international matches of six …

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Taxation and International Migration of Superstars: Evidence from the European Football Market

Kleven, Henrik; Landais, Camille; Saez, Emmanuel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper analyzes the effects of top earnings tax rates on the international migration of top football players in … Europe. We construct a panel data set of top earnings tax rates, football player careers, and club performances in the first … tax and institutional changes: (a) the 1995 Bosman ruling which liberalized the European football market, (b) top tax rate …

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Winning by Losing: Incentive Incompatibility in Multiple Qualifiers

Dagaev, Dmitry; Sonin, Konstantin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

In sport tournaments, the rules are presumably structured in a way that any team cannot be better off (e.g., to advance to the next round of competition) by losing instead of winning a game. Starting with a real-world example, we demonstrate that the existing national rules of awarding places...

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Some Issues in Modeling and Forecasting Inflation in South Africa

Aron, Janine; Muellbauer, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Inflation targeting central banks will be hampered without good models to assist them to be forward-looking. Many current inflation models fail to forecast turning points adequately, because they miss key underlying long-run influences. The world is on the cusp of a dramatic turning point in...

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Understanding South Africa's Economic Puzzles

Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

South Africa has undergone a remarkable transformation since its democratic transition in 1994, but economic growth and employment generation have been disappointing. Most worryingly, unemployment is currently among the highest in the world. While the proximate cause of high unemployment is that...

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Colonial Rule, Apartheid and Natural Resources: Top Incomes in South Africa, 1903-2007

Alvaredo, Facundo; Atkinson, Anthony B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

There have been important studies of overall income inequality and of poverty in South Africa. In this paper, we approach the subject from a different direction: the extent and evolution of top incomes. We present estimates of the shares in total income of groups such as the top 1 per cent and...

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Exchange Rate Pass-through and Monetary Policy in South Africa

Aron, Janine; Farrell, Greg; Muellbauer, John; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Understanding how import prices adjust to exchange rates helps anticipate inflation effects and monetary policy responses. This paper examines exchange rate passthrough to the monthly import price index in South Africa during 1980-2009. A methodological innovation allows various short-run...

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South-South migration and the labor market: Evidence from South Africa

Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria; Mendola, Mariapia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Using census data for 1996, 2001 and 2007 we study the labor market effect of immigration to South Africa. The paper contributes to a small but growing literature on the impact of South-South migration by looking at one of the most attractive destinations for migrant workers in Sub--Saharan...

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Migration, Congestion Externalities, and the Evaluation of Spatial Investments

Dinkelman, Taryn; Schulhofer-Wohl, Sam - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Evaluations of new infrastructure in developing countries typically focus on direct effects, such as the impact of an electrifification program on household energy use. But if new infrastructure induces people to move into an area, other local publicly provided goods may become congested,...

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Mitigating long-run health effects of drought: Evidence from South Africa

Dinkelman, Taryn - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Drought is Africa’s primary natural disaster and a pervasive source of income risk for poor households. This paper documents the long-run health effects of early life exposure to drought and investigates an important source of heterogeneity in these effects. Combining birth cohort variation in...

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